<p>A grand jury in Colleton County, South Carolina, indicted former attorney Alex Murdaugh on Thursday for allegedly killing his wife and son in June 2021.</p>
<p>Murdaugh, 54, had been suspected of killing his wife, 52-year-old Margaret, and their 22-year-old son Paul, who were found with bullet wounds on the family’s 1,700 acre estate.</p>
<p>“Over the last 13 months, SLED agents and our partners have worked day in and day out to build a case against the person responsible for the murders of Maggie and Paul and to exclude those who were not,” South Carolina Law Enforcement Division Chief Mark Keel said in a statement to media outlets. “At no point did agents lose focus on this investigation. From the beginning I have been clear, the priority was to ensure justice was served. Today is one more step in a long process for justice for Maggie and Paul.”</p>
<p>Murdaugh was already in prison for dozens of other charges, including financial crimes and charges related to his alleged attempt to stage a fake “hit” on himself. Those charges, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/alex-murdaugh-charged-with-murder-in-death-of-wife-son/2022/07/14/677dce78-0387-11ed-8beb-2b4e481b1500_story.html">according to The Washington Post</a>, were made after his wife and son were killed, but he had not been indicted for their deaths until now.</p>
<p>The indictment does not include many details, the Daily Beast <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/alex-murdaugh-disgraced-former-south-carolina-lawyer-charged-with-murder-of-wife-and-son">reported</a>, including information regarding Murdaugh’s motives for allegedly killing his family members. The indictment does say that Murdaugh allegedly killed his wife with a rifle but used a shotgun to kill his son.</p>
<p>The murder indictment is just the latest in a long and bizarre story regarding the once prominent South Carolina family. After Margaret and Paul were found murdered, police began looking into Murdaugh’s life and discovered numerous disturbing details.</p>
<p>Murdaugh was accused of stealing $8.5 million from people who had hired him to be their attorney. He is also alleged to have orchestrated his own murder by hiring a friend to kill him so that his surviving son, Buster, could receive a $10 million life insurance payout. Murdaugh allegedly lied to police about the incident, claiming a stranger shot him on the side of the road. This all took place just days after Murdaugh’s firm discovered he had been stealing money from clients.</p>
<p>Further, state police began looking into the hit-and-run death of a 19-year-old in July 2015 as a possible connection to Murdaugh, but no additional details have been released. Authorities also exhumed the body of Murdaugh’s former housekeeper, Gloria Satterfield, who was said to have died after a fall in 2018. Murdaugh allegedly collected more than $4 million from his home insurer by claiming wrongful death and saying he was working for Satterfield’s family, but the family didn’t receive any of the money, according to prosecutors.</p>
<p>Last month, Murdaugh was also indicted for alleged money laundering and creating a “distribution network” for painkillers, the Associated Press <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-south-carolina-money-laundering-indictments-7cb0c6e33cd9ad421dafd5e82df52795">reported</a> at the time. Murdaugh allegedly ran the drug ring with the same friend he allegedly hired to kill him.</p>
<p>Murdaugh has repeatedly denied killing his wife and son, saying he was visiting his parents when they were killed. He’s been in jail since October with a $7 million bond. On Tuesday, the South Carolina Supreme Court disbarred him, with his attorneys declining to contest the arguments against his disbarment.</p>

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